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Janet Currie

Yale University · Environmental Health

Active 1975–2026

h-index98
Citations43.1k
Papers633102 last 5y
Funding$1.0M

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About

Janet Currie is a Professor of Economics at Yale School of the Environment. Her research focuses on child mental health, the impact of wildfire and smoke in Canada, homelessness and the shelter system, and treatment of mental illness in adolescents. She has contributed to understanding trends in emergency department visits related to child mental health, the effects of Medicaid on child homelessness, and the treatment of mental illness in US adolescents. Her work often involves evaluating public health initiatives and analyzing the effects of social and environmental factors on health outcomes.

Research topics

  • Internal medicine
  • Medicine
  • Emergency medicine
  • Pharmacology
  • Medical emergency
  • Economics
  • Demography
  • Statistics
  • Mathematics
  • Virology

Selected publications

  • What Can Trends in Emergency Department Visits Tell Us About Child Mental Health?

    National Bureau of Economic Research · 2025-03-01 · 2 citations

    reportOpen access

    Increases in mental health diagnoses and suicidal behaviors in Emergency Departments are often cited as evidence of an accelerating child mental health crisis. We ask whether trends in ED visits provide an accurate picture of changes in U.S. child mental health. These measures have been profoundly affected by changing conventions about screening, defining, and coding of mental illness. We conclude that child mental health has been deteriorating, but not by the startling magnitudes suggested by j…

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  • Investing in Children to Address the Child Mental Health Crisis

    National Bureau of Economic Research · 2025-03-01 · 2 citations

    reportOpen access1st authorCorresponding

    The child mental health crisis has been described as the "defining public health crisis of our time."This article addresses three myths about the crisis: (i) the idea that the crisis is new; (ii) the belief that increases in youth suicide mainly reflect deterioration in children's underlying mental health; and (iii) the myth that investments in children have little impact on children's mental health.In fact, the cri-sis has existed for decades, youth suicides vary asynchronously with other menta…

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  • School Milestones Impact Child Mental Health in Taiwan

    National Bureau of Economic Research · 2024-08-01 · 2 citations

    reportOpen access

    This study uses administrative health insurance records in Taiwan to examine changes in child mental health treatment around four school milestones including: Primary and middle school entry, high stakes testing for high school, and high stakes testing for college entry.Leveraging age cutoffs for school entry in Taiwan, we compare August-born children to children born in September of the same year.The former hit all the milestones one year earlier than the latter, enabling us to identify each mi…

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  • Child Disability and Effects on Sibling Mental Health

    National Bureau of Economic Research · 2024-12-01 · 2 citations

    reportOpen access1st authorCorresponding

    Mental health disorders are the leading cause of childhood disability worldwide.We examine the impact of a relatively common household stressor on child mental health: the presence of a younger sibling with a physical disability.Using Danish administrative data from families with at least 3 children, we focus on differences between first and second born children in families with and without a 3rd child with a disability.Second-born children in these families spend a larger fraction of their earl…

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  • Rules versus Discretion: Treatment of Mental Illness in US Adolescents

    Journal of Political Economy · 2025-08-20 · 1 citations

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Education

  • PhD, Economics

    Princeton University

    1988

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